This week’s topics
Supply Chain Risk Identification and Typologies
- Demand forecasting variability
- Operational process disruptions
- Cyber threats to digital infrastructure
- Geopolitical conflict disruptions
- #46 Supply Risk Examples | Strategic Sourcing
- Cyber attacks! How to manage supply chain security
What you will be able to do
- 4.1 Describe types of risk found within supply chains.
- 4.3 Discuss how the impacts of the supply chain risks can be effectively managed within a supply chain.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe types of risk found within supply chains.
Study materials
Videos
- Cyber attacks! How to manage supply chain security · YouTube · Information Commission's Office (ICO) · 40 min · for registered students
- Thriving Instead of Surviving: How to increase resiliency in supply chains during tumultuous times · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 47 min · for registered students
- CILT Brexit Readiness training – managing supply chain risk · YouTube · CILT · 76 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Impacts during Rising Global Trade Tensions - MIT-SCx-Live · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 59 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know · PDF · NBER, article · for registered students
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 9: Risks and Challenges · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 145–159 · for registered students
- NCSC: 10 Steps to Cyber Security (infographic) · PDF · NCSC, guidance; 1 page · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
